Undergraduate Majors

Explore our majors

We have 14 business and design majors, more than any other business college in . You choose one of these majors when you apply to OSU. Additionally, you receive academic support to explore these degree programs through events and classes in your first year (and beyond) so that, ultimately, your degree aligns with your interests and passions. We are designed to be flexible for you, and many of our students, about a third, graduate with two business majors.

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Accounting

Today's accountants are tech-savvy problem solvers, insightful planners and strategic thinkers. Many of the “number-crunching” tasks formerly thought to be part of an accountant's world have long ago been replaced by sophisticated software.

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Apparel Design

Turn your creative passion into a career; as an apparel design student, you’ll develop skills essential to moving an idea from concept to creation, including ideation, hand and digital sketching, fabric print design, paper and digital pattern making, draping, garment construction, fit evaluation, the development of factory specifications, along

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Business Administration

Get ready to be a problem-solver, decision-maker and leader who can identify opportunities to evaluate the success of any organization.

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Business Analytics

More and more, data is driving business decisions, and companies need experts to derive insights from their data sets. Business analytics is a rapidly growing and highly in-demand skill. According to the U.S.

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Business Information Systems

Business and technology go together intrinsically. As businesses continue to improve their competitive advantage, information systems such as databases, web services and business applications are supplying strategic and operational opportunities for business leadership and decision-making.

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Design & Innovation Management

Are you a creative-thinker who can help a business or organization be a leader in design and innovation? Are you interested in working with multi-disciplinary teams on tackling creative challenges?

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Finance

Finance is harnessing the power of money to make things happen. Effective financing enables life-saving research, ground-breaking engineering, and building of infrastructure on which communities and nations depend.

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Hospitality Management

Hospitality is one of the largest industries in business and an important industry sector in . You can position yourself to be a leader in the guest services industry by earning a degree in hospitality management.

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Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Business advantages require change-makers, disrupters, and insightful thinkers. Innovation and Entrepreneurship embraces these forces of creativity, innovation and process-based refinements. Here you'll learn how to recognize and develop opportunities in any organization, including corporations, non-profits, family, and small business.

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Interior Design

Our interior design major explores how spaces look, feel and function. Using a human-centered approach, students learn how the design of the built environment impacts our productivity, health and emotions. We prepare critical thinkers who can work both independently and as effective members of design teams.

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Marketing

Think about the most impressive marketing campaign you’ve ever seen. It might have come from brands like Nike, Apple or Coca-Cola. These brands have achieved greatness with the help of a strong marketing strategy. This is what you'll study — the science of consumers, product and communication to build strong, successful brands.

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Organizational Leadership

Planning, organizing, leading, taking initiative … does that sound like you? If you want a career where leading others and managing change effectively are your keys to advancement, look no further than organizational leadership.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Management

Trade, manufacturing, sourcing, global production — every item you touch and use, from your toothbrush to your telephone — has a complex story of parts and pieces that brought the functioning item to you; supply chain and logistics management provides you with the knowledge to optimize how all these parts come together and when developed, in fro

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Out-of-State discounted tuition opportunity

is part of the Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) network, a partnership that helps students in 18 U.S. states and territories with paying for college. WUE allows us to offer a tuition discount — the WUE scholarship — to out-of-state students. WUE limits non-resident tuition as a College of Business student to no more than 150% of in-state tuition rates; this translates to nearly $15,000 of savings per year. If eligible, when you apply to OSU, you'll be considered automatically for this scholarship.